ncurses 5.7 - patch 20101204

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_addstr.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_addstr.3x b/man/curs_addstr.3x
index 0ffacc6fa9b7d6a53388d0de128629fe09595eaf..a52619ea7f2a1aebc3a7d2af9180c5dc02c7866c 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_addstr.3x
+++ b/man/curs_addstr.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2005,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -26,8 +26,10 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_addstr.3x,v 1.11 2003/12/27 18:51:15 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_addstr.3x,v 1.16 2010/12/04 18:36:44 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_addstr 3X ""
+.na
+.hy 0
 .SH NAME
 \fBaddstr\fR,
 \fBaddnstr\fR,
@@ -36,7 +38,9 @@
 \fBmvaddstr\fR,
 \fBmvaddnstr\fR,
 \fBmvwaddstr\fR,
-\fBmvwaddnstr\fR - add a string of characters to a \fBcurses\fR window and advance cursor
+\fBmvwaddnstr\fR \- add a string of characters to a \fBcurses\fR window and advance cursor
+.ad
+.hy
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
@@ -63,13 +67,23 @@ These routines write the characters of the (null-terminated) character string
 It is similar to calling \fBwaddch\fR once for each character in the string.
 The four routines with \fIn\fR as the last argument
 write at most \fIn\fR characters.
-If \fIn\fR is -1, then the entire string will be added,
+If \fIn\fR is \-1, then the entire string will be added,
 up to the maximum number of characters that will fit on the line,
 or until a terminating null is reached.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 All routines return the integer \fBERR\fR upon failure and \fBOK\fR on success
 (the SVr4 manuals specify only "an integer value other than \fBERR\fR") upon
 successful completion.
+.PP
+X/Open does not define any error conditions.
+This implementation returns an error
+if the window pointer is null or
+if the string pointer is null or
+if the corresponding calls to \fBwaddch\fP return an error.
+.PP
+Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using
+\fBwmove\fP, and return an error if the position is outside the window,
+or if the window pointer is null.
 .SH NOTES
 Note that all of these routines except \fBwaddstr\fR and \fBwaddnstr\fR may be
 macros.
@@ -79,9 +93,3 @@ XSI errors EILSEQ and EOVERFLOW, associated with extended-level conformance,
 are not yet detected.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBcurs_addch\fR(3X).
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